Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public had an opinion about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Last week George Gallup reported on another set of McCarthy polls. Salient results: 1) about 80 million adult Americans (79%) now have an opinion, and 2) Joe McCarthy is more popular than ever before. Gallup's tables show the trend over the past eight months on the question: "In general, would you say you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy2...
...step forward is necessary," said Peking's People's Daily, ". . . to combat this spontaneous capitalist trend of the peasants." Peking has long complained that China's peasants are slow to hate their "class enemies," i.e., the surviving landlords who still own an acre or more. Judging by the reports of travelers reaching free Hong Kong and by the hysterical tone of Communist reprimands, masses of peasants are refusing to sell their crops to the government at the fixed low rates prescribed by law. The peasants, squeezed by taxes, "voluntary patriotic contributions," and high living costs, are also...
...date 1984 will have a macabre significance to those young men who might be residing in Cambridge at that time. For 1984 is the year in which Harvard University fulfilled a 40-year trend toward complete economy...
...distant mountains of Korea . . . The nation has just completed the most prosperous year in its history. The damaging effect of inflation ... has been brought under control. The cost of our Government has been reduced, and its work proceeds with some 183,000 fewer employees; thus the discouraging trend of modern governments toward their own limitless expansion has been in our case reversed. The cost of armaments becomes less oppressive as we near our defense goals; yet we are militarily stronger every...
...Columbia record line is the latest "automated" production line in U.S. industry and a prime example of the trend toward automatic factories. For Columbia, it means that skilled press operators no longer need go through six steps to make a record. The new machine does the job in an uninterrupted flow; it automatically feeds the right amount of plastic into a mold, cools it, and ejects the records. Each of the machines costs $25,000 (v. $3,000 for an old-style press), but they make better records about 30% faster, and four men can watch over the entire operation...